Assassin's Creed II

**Prussian to the Iron** · 12-29-2009, 18:21

i just beat it after having it for around....oh 17 days? i got it the first night of channukah.

i dont know if ill have time to play it again, but if i am ever bored, i can certainly come back to it. great game, the ending was a little unsatisfying

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but still totally awesome. the scope is definitely much grander than previously; it takes a while to run just about anywhere in the major cities.

the combat system is great, but the battles with rodrigo borgia get boring. for a fat 60-year-old man in the papal outfit, he certainly moves like a 20 year old in a t-shirt and shorts. he blocks just about every attack, counters dont work on him, trying to disarm him gets you nowhere, and the only way to beat him is: attack,attack,attack, block, attack, attack, attack, block, attack, attack, attack, block...etc.

notoriety is handled kinda funny. because, as we all know, removing 4 wanted posters makes a man wanted for hundreds of (known) murders, who has a 50,000 florin bounty on his head, makes him totally unknown. and killing people automatically spawns corrupt officials and wanted posters. but i know if it was more than 4 for being totally incognito from a 100% criminal, id go insane.

there is 1 mission that i almost ripped my brains out over though. the one iwth davincis flying machine. it. is. stupid. and. boring. and. whoever. designed. it. needs. to. fall. down. a. cliff.
one can only hear "Marcossi! shoot! shoot the flying demon!" so many times before he cracks...

while it may seem like i hate the game, it is a work of art. i just cant think of too much to say about it besides the parts that drove me crazy. i advise everyone to get this game.

**Beskar** · 12-29-2009, 18:31

My father got the book of this game for Christmas. I haven't played the game, so I decided to steal it from him for a read.

I have to admit, the authorship isn't that good. There is a lot of rushing and jumping sections. You are reading then you suddenly go "huh?" as there was a bit inbetween missing, in the sentence. Without going back to find it, it would be for incidence talking about seeing a girl on some rooftops a mile away, and during the sentence he is suddenly talking to her and she is replying, without the whole travel part.

**frogbeastegg** · 12-29-2009, 18:44

Originally Posted by Prussian Iron

there is 1 mission that i almost ripped my brains out over though. the one iwth davincis flying machine. it. is. stupid. and. boring. and. whoever. designed. it. needs. to. fall. down. a. cliff. one can only hear "Marcossi! shoot! shoot the flying demon!" so many times before he cracks..

Oh yes! I played that section a few days ago and I think I died more times on it than on the rest of the game.

The other thing that has me gnashing my teeth are the assassin's tombs where there's a timed jumping section. I'm on my final tomb before I complete the set and RAGE is such an inadequate term. Fixed camera angles + need to hurry + controls designed for use in wide open spaces instead of hamster course = GAH!

**Prussian to the Iron** · 12-30-2009, 04:14

i assume you mean the tomb where there are some roman soldier statues, and when you jump to and hold on to certain poles it moves some door to unlock it at the end of the puzzle? that one took around 30 minutes.....but one of them was extraordinarily hard for me.

it was in Forli i think, and right at the start, you had to run up a wall onto this 1 post, and than jump backwards onto another one, climb up a few, and jump back to another higher one, etc. to the top. i cannot tell you how many times i just about broke my Tv, controller, and ps3 all at once when he didnt just fricking jump backwards. after the first one, it was fine though, just the first was killing me...

**Owen Glyndwr** · 12-30-2009, 06:47

Gah! I hated the last couple assassin's tombs. There was a couple times where I spent an hour on one section not because it was difficult, but because the camera was positioned in such a way as I simply did not realize that I could go where I needed to jump.

Fighting was as a whole better, but I liked the feeling of fighting with the sword overall a lot more than previously.

The ending was very confusing, definitely not helped by the fact that

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was ******** impossible to hear!!

All in all the game was a lot of fun, albeit I felt a lot less difficult (anyone else remember dying like crazy in the last few fights of AC1?). Being sneaky felt way cooler though, and I really liked that there was a lot more variety in the game.

**Skullheadhq** · 12-30-2009, 14:12

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**Greyblades** · 12-30-2009, 15:24

Ah crud...

**Beskar** · 12-30-2009, 17:47

Originally Posted by Skullheadhq

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**frogbeastegg** · 12-30-2009, 18:55

Spoiler tags please! The game's ending is not common knowledge.

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Originally Posted by Prussian Iron

i assume you mean the tomb where there are some roman soldier statues, and when you jump to and hold on to certain poles it moves some door to unlock it at the end of the puzzle? that one took around 30 minutes.....but one of them was extraordinarily hard for me.

No, I did that one second to last and had convinced myself that the remaining one couldn't be nastier. I'm inside the church with the big mosaic on the floor, which had 4 buttons around it which open up 4 different timed jumping sections. I have completed one section. I would say I completed a second section but it seemed to glitch; I made the final jump as the time ran out. I couldn't press the button to bring the chain back down and the game hadn't shown me the success cutscene. There's a third section I haven't tried at all yet, and the fourth I cannot complete because Ezio always falls off the cross-shaped chandeliers.

Originally Posted by Owen Glyndwr

(anyone else remember dying like crazy in the last few fights of AC1?)

:shudders: I try not to remember that part.

**Beskar** · 12-31-2009, 04:07

Yeah, that massive spoiler just ruined the anticipation for the game for me (waiting for PC release). =/ It was like Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Fail when I loved the Last Crusade.

**Prussian to the Iron** · 12-31-2009, 07:24

Originally Posted by frogbeastegg

No, I did that one second to last and had convinced myself that the remaining one couldn't be nastier. I'm inside the church with the big mosaic on the floor, which had 4 buttons around it which open up 4 different timed jumping sections. I have completed one section. I would say I completed a second section but it seemed to glitch; I made the final jump as the time ran out. I couldn't press the button to bring the chain back down and the game hadn't shown me the success cutscene. There's a third section I haven't tried at all yet, and the fourth I cannot complete because Ezio always falls off the cross-shaped chandeliers.

oh.......i had a bit o trouble with that too. after i really analyzed it though, i got through each one in time. the bottom and left one (standing in the middle and looking where you activated the buttons to appear) were the easiest i tihnk.

**Ice** · 01-01-2010, 08:32

Originally Posted by Prussian Iron

oh.......i had a bit o trouble with that too. after i really analyzed it though, i got through each one in time. the bottom and left one (standing in the middle and looking where you activated the buttons to appear) were the easiest i tihnk.

I just did a practice run through each time, and when I had it down I did it for real.

The assassin tombs were some of the most amazing things I have ever seen. The church in Venice was beautiful.

**frogbeastegg** · 01-01-2010, 12:55

The worst thing about these indoor fixed camera runs is that Ezio - rarely and randomly - jumps at a 45 degree angle to what I want, e.g. jumping slightly to the left when I want him to jump forwards. That leaves him sailing past the point he needs to grab or smashing his face into it so he falls down anyway.

I'll get past it next time I try, I'm sure. If I'd had more patience I'd have managed it on my first overall attempt, same as the other tombs. Coming after that nasty one where you had timed jumps around the outide of a pool of water it was too much for me to feel like playing.

The tombs remind me of why I didn't like the last Prince of Persia game. Semi automated controls work fine in some instances, and in others they leave the player fumbling around as if they're trying to pick up individual grains of sand while wearing thick gloves.